Aperi Storage Community to Propose Open Source Project to Eclipse; Novell to Join Nine Storage Leaders

we have foundthat open source not only complements but also accelerates open standards,"said Laura Sanders, vice president, System Storage products and solutions,IBM. "Open source projects such as Aperi are a proven vehicle for advancingthe adoption of open standards. Through today's announcement with Eclipse,Aperi is making a giant leap towards giving customers an open storagemanagement framework that is built through collaboration and innovation."

McDATA

"As a leader in storage networking, McDATA is committed to enhancing theinteroperability and ease-of-use of advanced storage networking managementsolutions," said McDATA Senior Vice President of Engineering MichaelFrendo. "We are committed to applying our expertise to Aperi as well asstandards and open source efforts that will bring these benefits to ourcustomers."

Network Appliance

"The availability of a common open source framework for storage vendorswill drive the development of rich storage management applications forcustomers," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Partners,Network Appliance. "NetApp has traditionally been a proud supporter of openstandards, and participation in the Aperi community under Eclipsereinforces our commitment to help customers focus on value-add storagemanagement functionality rather than infrastructure. A common framework formanagement across heterogeneous storage systems will help drive thedevelopment of a common shared storage management platform, allowingcustomers to focus on managing their data needs instead of theirinfrastructure needs."

Novell

"An open source storage management framework that implements the SNIA SMI-Sstandard will help advance the industry to a level of greaterinteroperability and advanced functionality," said Hal Bennett, vicepresident of alliances for Novell. "Novell believes the Aperi projectframework will ultimately help customers derive maximum value from theirstorage environment, as well as promote innovation of new storage platformsand tools. We're firm backers of CIM based management and the SMI-Sstandards for storage, both of which plug nicely into Aperi."

Contact:Meredith HannonIBM Media Relationsmerhannon@us.ibm.com512-286-3992

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